The Miami Heat are coming off a drubbing from the Houston Rockets on Wednesday night. The Warriors may be the unfortunate victims of circumstance.
The Miami Heat should come out on Friday night ticked off, it is just that simple. While they should come out with that mentality on all nights, looking like one of the best teams in the league at times this season, they should especially be that way after what happened to them on Wednesday night against the Houston Rockets.
While it is reasonable to expect that James Harden, Russell Westbrook, and the crew would be mad after what happened to them at the very beginning of the season down in Miami, for them to come out and go about it the way they did was downright disrespectful. Harden came out bombing, as he always does, but in a very extra special diabolically sinister kind of way.
On several occasions, it was almost as if he was toying with the defender, using his multiple through the legs pity pat crossover, before rising up and draining a shot from almost the other end of the court. Here is a tweet that perfectly describes the feeling in real-time.
Harden’s a bully..he took the last matchup very personal and set out to prove a point, licked his chops when he found out Jimmy wasn’t playing, which is only exacerbated by being beaten in their last game to Texas’s new superstar..smh
— All U Can Heat (@AllUCanHeat1) November 28, 2019
With the Miami Heat shorthanded, they took advantage of it big time, making the Heat look bad in the process. While that was the last game, it is so key here as it has everything to do with the next Miami Heat contest.
In a game against a beat-up, banged-up, and ravaged Golden State Warriors team, this Heat team should look to do exactly what the Rockets did to them on Wednesday. It is a well-known secret around the NBA that teams are looking forward to being able to embarrass the Warriors on given occasions based on what the Warriors have done to everyone else over the past four years.
Although the Miami Heat were infamously pesky to the warriors over the past several years, beaten them on occasion, this is their chance to exert their wills on the Golden State team in a major way. Here is everything else you need to know about this game.
Miami Heat gambling & odds vs Golden State Warriors
Money line- Miami Heat -750 Golden State Warriors +525
Spread- Miami Heat -11.5
Total- 209.5
Gambling odds and information courtesy of The Action Network
How To Watch/Listen
Date: November 29, 2019
Time: 8:00 PM EST
Location: American Airlines Arena Miami, Florida
TV: Fox Sports Sun(locally), Fubo.tv
Radio: WAXY 790 AM WAQI 710 AM
Starting Lineups
Miami Heat
PG- Kendrick Nunn
SG- Jimmy Butler
SF- Duncan Robinson
PF- Bam Adebayo
C- Meyers Leonard
Golden State Warriors
SG- Alec Burks
SF- Glenn Robinson III
PF- Draymond Green
PF- Eric Paschall
C- Willie Cauley-Stein